Sofa-bed



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SOFA BED.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL TOLKSDORFF, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOFA-BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,973, dated July 16, 1889.

Application filed July 13, 1888. Serial No. 279,902. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL TOLKSDORFF, of the city of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of illassaehusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sofa-Beds, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to sofa-beds, &c., in which the seat-frame is in two horizontal sections hinged together along one edge and adapted to be closed upon each other and to be opened and placed and supportedin aconilllOll horizontal plane, all as well known.

The invention consists in a construction of the back to be used as a receptacle or stowway for bedclothes, &c., in a hanging of the back to posts of the fixed seatsection to be swung thereon and placed in a vertical position on eitherside of the posts and on the front side to serve as a back to the sofa, all substantially as hereinafter described.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the sofabed of this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the seat-sections opened and of the back and the sofa-bed adapted as a bed. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section,line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. l is a transverse vertical section,line 4 i, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section, line 5 5, Fig. i. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view, as hereinafter appears.

I11 the drawings, A and B represent two horizontal seat-sections placed one upon the other, and together so placed making the seat of the sofa.

C are leg-supports for the lower and fixed seat-section B. The upper seat-section A is hinged, as at a, to the front edge of the lower section B, to be opened from the same and placed in a horizontal position corresponding to the horizontal position of the lower section B, and in which position the two sections A B, then being otherwise suitably adapted there for, as hereinafter described, can be used as a bed.

D are pins making the leg-supports for the upper seat-section Ain itshorizontal position and one at each corner of the section.

E E are the arms to the sofa-seat frame, one at each end, and attached by setting them over the leg-pins D of the upper seat-section A, and thus the arms are free to be attached and detached at pleasure, they being detached when the upper seatsection is to be opened to make a bed of the sofa.

F is the back-frame. This back-frameF is suspended by elongated links or eyes (Z f to the upper ends of vertical posts H, secured to the rear side of lower seat-section B, and thus the back can be swung thereon to be placed in a vertical position, Figs. 1, 3, 5, and 6, in front of the posts H, to serve as a back to the sofaseat closed, and, Figs. 2 and 4, back of the posts H, and thus away from the seat-sections when the upper section has been opened for the seat to be used as a bed.

The back-frame F is chambered, as at G, to be used as a receptacle or stowway for bedclothes, &c., which, placed therein, are to be held against accidental escapement in any suitable manner-as, for illustration,by means of an opening and closing frame K, of suitable construction, at its lower portion hinged to the rear side of the back-frame, and at its upper portion fastened against accidental opening by catches L L, which are pivoted to the upper rail of the back-frame, and adapted, when suitably swung therefor, to be engaged with the frame K, so as to hold it closed. The means for retaining the bedclothes in the chambered back-frame constitute no part of this invention.

M is a canvas or other suitable woven or flexible covering stretching across the two seat-sections A B, when opened, Fig. 2, and attached to the side and end rails N and O of each section.

1 1? are swinging frames, one for each seatsection A B and at the corresponding end of each. Each swinging frame P crosses from side rail to side rail of its section and its free ends are hung thereon, as at 9. Each is of rectangular shape and extends across the width of the canvas for each seat-section, and the canvas is secured to the frames by stitches 72, leaving a loose or folding flap-extension Q of the canvas between the part of the frames so secured and the end rails of the seat-sections the nearer thereto.

The canvas covering adapts the seat-sections to be used-as a bed,and by its described attachment to the seat-sections and the swinging frames P P, with the canvas under suit able tension when the seat-sections are opened,

the swinging frames come to and are-retained in an inclining position lengthwise of and across the seat-sections, and thus head-rests, Fig. 4, are secured to the canvas at such end of the seat-sections.

In closing the upper seatsection on the lower seat-section the head-rest frames P P, as also the canvas covering, close upon each other and the flapextensions double upon themselves, Figs. 3 and 5.

R R are frames located at the corresponding ends of the seat-sections and hinged to each, so as to be folded upon the canvas covering when the seat-sections are closed and to be swung in avertical position to serve as tailboards, as it Were, to the seat-sections opened.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLe1ters Patent, 1s

In a sofa-bed, 850., the combination, with a seat in upper and lower seat-sections hinged together at the front side of the seat and when opened into a horizontal position adapted to be suitably supported, of posts H at the back edge and at opposite ends of the lower seatsection, vertical links f f, held on the upper ends of posts H, a chambered back-frame F, to contain bedclothes and adapted to be opened and closed, horizontal links cl (1, held on the back-frame F and engaging the links f of 0 EMIL TOLKSDORFF.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, GEO. C. BENT. 

